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how much more important it is for two parties to get together to craft a compromise on immigration, tax reform, and many other issues that the country now needs. >> host: is there a golden age of compromise? to real crises, 9/11 from a world to land themselves to compromise -- political compromise? >> guest: compromises always has and the way we should judge the ability of our politicians to compromise is what i heard the great goals they have succeeded in getting that they couldn't have without compromise. so the golden age, if there was one, and i'm inclined to think there's ever a golden age, but there is a very important each of compromise, which founded this country. so i would go back to the constitution for all it's worth, and it had more than a word. it had an evil baked into it, the evil of slavery. the constitution made it possible to abolish slavery. you have to remember is the article of the confederation that preceded the constitution and the time, every state had a veto power over all legislation. so it was the establishment of the constitution of the united states was est
how much more important it is for two parties to get together to craft a compromise on immigration, tax reform, and many other issues that the country now needs. >> host: is there a golden age of compromise? to real crises, 9/11 from a world to land themselves to compromise -- political compromise? >> guest: compromises always has and the way we should judge the ability of our politicians to compromise is what i heard the great goals they have succeeded in getting that they couldn't...
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and then you have conservatives arguing for lowering taxes since we passed corporate tax rate in the world on the rationale for why that works. why from an economic standpoint that produces more prosperity, how it works under ronald reagan, how jack kennedy did it, which you don't hear the same argument coming from this administration. they can't argue the facts because the facts do not back them out. they also can't come forward and have an honest discussion about what their objectives are. for us conservatives will argue our objective is to elevate everybody by increasing prosperity, by unleashing the private sector from overbearing government regulation so everybody can prosper. we believe there's an unlimited ability for prosperity. the left believes it's a fixed amount and everybody gets a slice. that's not how we see things. you don't hear the laughter ticket waiting a response to that discussion because what obama wants to do is force redistribution. if you are honest about that, his goals of not just equalize the number one, they're putting them down because that's what happe
and then you have conservatives arguing for lowering taxes since we passed corporate tax rate in the world on the rationale for why that works. why from an economic standpoint that produces more prosperity, how it works under ronald reagan, how jack kennedy did it, which you don't hear the same argument coming from this administration. they can't argue the facts because the facts do not back them out. they also can't come forward and have an honest discussion about what their objectives are....
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we tax their profits often. now, in the case of exxon mobile , they are global company the of discovering oil. no one is going to regulate them in the public interest. this is a similar utility function, and in fact if you were a commuting construction worker you go to the pump. you have a choice. put it in that whenever prices there, and you can understand why you have no accountability and control over that kind of track the urine. i think it is a sort of an -- history that we treat the provision of gasoline is entirely a free-market function without any public interest oversight. some taxes and some environmental regulation, but we treat electricity as a public utility. in many other countries they organize things differently. i don't know that there is any easy way to fix this, but exxon will recognize the problem because they're popularity arises from the fact that their brand name is stuck and all these bombs were people are angry. no business basically deliberately tries to put its customers into a positi
we tax their profits often. now, in the case of exxon mobile , they are global company the of discovering oil. no one is going to regulate them in the public interest. this is a similar utility function, and in fact if you were a commuting construction worker you go to the pump. you have a choice. put it in that whenever prices there, and you can understand why you have no accountability and control over that kind of track the urine. i think it is a sort of an -- history that we treat the...
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which is a consequence of any kind of market change and also a consequence of the carbon tax. that dribble trickles down to the consumer and changes habits. that turns the tables a little bit. seems to me that our inability as the public to make sacrifices makes us more of beholding to companies we don't like. >> guest: right. there's truth in that. and it's interesting, i was trying to think about this question of this price that people would have to pay to address climate change in particular, and no public in any era wants to volunteer for higher prices in their household expend kit tours. our politic shows that where the public saw a threat -- itch they thought their children were more likely to get asthma or develop respiratory disease because of air pollution that was unaddressed or their children were likely -- more likely to be exposed to cancer as a result of pollution in water supply, that people are willing to pay a price, whatever the price was, to protect their living generation from that danger. the problem with climate is it's over the horizon and the dangers ar
which is a consequence of any kind of market change and also a consequence of the carbon tax. that dribble trickles down to the consumer and changes habits. that turns the tables a little bit. seems to me that our inability as the public to make sacrifices makes us more of beholding to companies we don't like. >> guest: right. there's truth in that. and it's interesting, i was trying to think about this question of this price that people would have to pay to address climate change in...
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he should recommend a creative revision of the tax law, serious debt reduction program. should encourage college to enact an annual budget that occurred for the past three years. he might come up with a proposal for inventive public or of a partnership to improve infrastructure, including the electric grid and of course continue to encourage any energy independence. the resolution of unsold houses should be sought, but all of this will occur only if a reelected barack obama could somehow find the unique temperament required to work with his administration, to move to the center and discover ways to reach meaningful compromise with a congress willing to pass legislation the country so desperately needs. what is not a subject of this paper, one can ask and will he be reelected? rarely have presidents been reelected to a second term as popularity ratings in the 40% level, which is where obama rests. so does romney. it's interesting to note only three of 19 presidents elected to a second term had relatively less popularity rating at the time of the reelection, as low as thei
he should recommend a creative revision of the tax law, serious debt reduction program. should encourage college to enact an annual budget that occurred for the past three years. he might come up with a proposal for inventive public or of a partnership to improve infrastructure, including the electric grid and of course continue to encourage any energy independence. the resolution of unsold houses should be sought, but all of this will occur only if a reelected barack obama could somehow find...
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he should recommend a creative revision of the tax laws, the serious debt and debt reduction program. he should have congress enacted budget which has not occurred for the past three years. he might come up with a proposal for inventing public-private partnerships to improve infrastructure, including the electric grid. and, of course, continue to encourage energy independence. the resolution of the supply of unfilled housing should be tried but only if a reelected barack obama can somehow find a unique instrument required to work with this administration to move to the center and discover ways to reach meaningful compromise with the congresswoman to pass legislation that this country so desperately needs. although it's not a -- one can ask will he be reelected. historically rarely have presidents been real elected to a second term with popular ratings in the 40% level, which is where obama rests, but so does romney. interesting to note that only three of the 19 presidents elected to a second term as relatively less popularity ratings at the time of their reelection. these are woodrow
he should recommend a creative revision of the tax laws, the serious debt and debt reduction program. he should have congress enacted budget which has not occurred for the past three years. he might come up with a proposal for inventing public-private partnerships to improve infrastructure, including the electric grid. and, of course, continue to encourage energy independence. the resolution of the supply of unfilled housing should be tried but only if a reelected barack obama can somehow find...
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>> president has said it has reached out across the aisle various things with economic reform but tax reform, immigration reform. i don't have a crystal ball but i think that there is little doubt that the president would be willing to compromise if the other party is willing to meet him part of the way. but the other party's job is to see how much it can get for its side and given the issues that we have been through such as the fiscal cliff, the fact is there's no way out of the issues without compromise but i do think that we will see compromise on something like immigration reform because demographics is destiny and the republicans as well as the democrats recognize that they have to share some support for the immigration reform if they are not going to in the case of the republicans lose the span of the population permanently. to the republican party. so, the president has already i believe shown a willingness to compromise, and all of the data shows that the republicans are the party that has moved to the right and the left although both parties are extreme, so i feel that we ar
>> president has said it has reached out across the aisle various things with economic reform but tax reform, immigration reform. i don't have a crystal ball but i think that there is little doubt that the president would be willing to compromise if the other party is willing to meet him part of the way. but the other party's job is to see how much it can get for its side and given the issues that we have been through such as the fiscal cliff, the fact is there's no way out of the issues...
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they don't want to pay taxes on all these understood. so it's an intellectual disconnect, lack of integration. and i think that is the fundamental issue. that's where the objective argument is more important, we show them this doesn't work. and i particularly think we've got to show older people how bad it is for their children. i don't think many grandmothers want to do bad things for their grandchildren. they've done a good job of letting people rationalize that that's not true. so an article in "the new yorker" were social security had no problems. you have to know it's her to take them seriously. but what they're doing is reinforcing the rational belief people want to hold. they want to think there's no problem, even though the facts are there. so how you do that in key people inspired at the same time it's a lot easier to say there's no negative consequence to it. so that this philosophical fight and this hate this the worksite. it's a harder message because they're so much -- everybody in here knows when your kid 13 it's easy to le
they don't want to pay taxes on all these understood. so it's an intellectual disconnect, lack of integration. and i think that is the fundamental issue. that's where the objective argument is more important, we show them this doesn't work. and i particularly think we've got to show older people how bad it is for their children. i don't think many grandmothers want to do bad things for their grandchildren. they've done a good job of letting people rationalize that that's not true. so an article...
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also we wonder companies think urged to a invested in are not abroad so repatriating money that his tax back to the united states allowing us to create jobs here and maybe could be tied into creating an infrastructure bank or something like that the point is we need fundamental changes. believe it or not we care more than anything else about the health of the u.s. economy because that determines our future. we support the simpson -- it hurts everyone and it's painfully been for us but we need the stability and our finances as a country and every responsible business should stand up and say that. both sides republicans and democrats are recognizing the pain has to be spread around so those are big issues for us and their things that affect innovation. basically people don't produce anything but lawyers is not a good way to get a society and from the smallest to start up to the biggest company we need more certainty. and ginobli are violating patents and we shouldn't be putting people out of work and actively run companies if they don't even think there are breaking someone's patent. >> h
also we wonder companies think urged to a invested in are not abroad so repatriating money that his tax back to the united states allowing us to create jobs here and maybe could be tied into creating an infrastructure bank or something like that the point is we need fundamental changes. believe it or not we care more than anything else about the health of the u.s. economy because that determines our future. we support the simpson -- it hurts everyone and it's painfully been for us but we need...
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and i understand that you, too, are having some problems with paying taxes. and he goes on to list in a very quiet voice some things that amount to saying that he is maybe himself the center of the corruption problem. and then very thin smile, there are videos of this confrontation. very thin smile, putin says and so, you see, i'm returning the hockey puck to you. [laughter] and there was this laughter, nervous laughter in the room. you can hear it on the tapes. and everybody knew in moscow by the next day that he was finished. so that really is what it comes down to. he defied the man. and so long as the man is there, it's hard to imagine -- [inaudible] we're hearing now vibrations to the effect that maybe they'll let him out early. >> professor, thank you for your passionate and succinct presentation of the russian oil industry. i was just wondering if you could talk a little bit about the environment and environmental issues. here in this country whenever we talk about new exploration, we're also talking about environmental implications, and we hear about
and i understand that you, too, are having some problems with paying taxes. and he goes on to list in a very quiet voice some things that amount to saying that he is maybe himself the center of the corruption problem. and then very thin smile, there are videos of this confrontation. very thin smile, putin says and so, you see, i'm returning the hockey puck to you. [laughter] and there was this laughter, nervous laughter in the room. you can hear it on the tapes. and everybody knew in moscow by...
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some taxed religious property. others banned given groups' practices. i'm thinking, for example, eventually various states in the southwest banning polygamy, for example. >> host: so when it came to massachusetts, talk about massachusetts or pennsylvania. of we're here in pennsylvania, as a case study of states regulating religion. >> guest: sure. pennsylvania, for example, had an active blasphemy law which we would nowty of as -- now think of of as starkly unconstitutional. and the last case, um, that was brought, the last criminal prosecution under blasphemy law was actually brought in the early 1970s kind of by accident against someone who had a sign in his window saying something like "wanted: radical carpenter speaks to crowds preaching peace." and, on, this person meant jesus, but someone walking past thought it blasphemous and complained. the american civil liberties union got involved pretty quickly, and the prosecution was dropped. more recently, the, a film company own or tried to name -- owner tried to name his company i choose hell productio
some taxed religious property. others banned given groups' practices. i'm thinking, for example, eventually various states in the southwest banning polygamy, for example. >> host: so when it came to massachusetts, talk about massachusetts or pennsylvania. of we're here in pennsylvania, as a case study of states regulating religion. >> guest: sure. pennsylvania, for example, had an active blasphemy law which we would nowty of as -- now think of of as starkly unconstitutional. and the...
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policymakers who believe in structural reforms, privatization, tax reforms, budget cuts, labor mobility, and they need to be competitive both internally and externally. if you don't have, if you don't have plans like that you will not get them back to growth anytime soon. so it's very, very important that you do that. seven, the point is the private sector. and i think this is a problem. because at the beginning there was no interest in the case of greece and some of these other countries involved in the private sector. and, in fact, it was a when things got so bad that greece called upon the private sector with the european union. the european central bank and the international monetary fund, to really get the private sector involved. and there you had a big haircut that could've been dealt with earlier. it would have been as bad and now they just have to do another debt buyback problem, operation, which is still a problem. so i think the idea getting the private sector involved early on, and we show this both in latin america and asia, the asian financial crisis. korea has been a good
policymakers who believe in structural reforms, privatization, tax reforms, budget cuts, labor mobility, and they need to be competitive both internally and externally. if you don't have, if you don't have plans like that you will not get them back to growth anytime soon. so it's very, very important that you do that. seven, the point is the private sector. and i think this is a problem. because at the beginning there was no interest in the case of greece and some of these other countries...
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which did not put the administration in a good light read the comment attributed to him was we shall tax and spend. whether true or not, of course, he denied it. it stuck with him for the rest of his life and became a rallying cry for those who hated roosevelt and the new deal. as if that wasn't enough, in september of 1939 when war broke out in europe, he found himself back at the mayo clinic. the doctors ruled out a recurrence of cancer, but they could not figure out why he was unable to absorb nutrients. so they gave him a blood transfusion and injections of liver extracts. a combination that was administered to him often for the rest of his life. i'm times at work and sometimes it didn't. for the rest of his life, he was unable to gain weight. his digestive system -- it was a mass. sometimes he is was on the verge of starvation for me before he moved into the white house, he had his little house in georgetown -- a little rented house with his daughter, diana. he was still recovering. the president had some challenging issues on his mind. the president knew that hitler would turn to t
which did not put the administration in a good light read the comment attributed to him was we shall tax and spend. whether true or not, of course, he denied it. it stuck with him for the rest of his life and became a rallying cry for those who hated roosevelt and the new deal. as if that wasn't enough, in september of 1939 when war broke out in europe, he found himself back at the mayo clinic. the doctors ruled out a recurrence of cancer, but they could not figure out why he was unable to...
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so i'm very, very proud that tax papers are here, as i said, where they belong. now to return to his question, actually, initially i had a very negative approach. it did not start out very well. when jack retired he came back. he brought home with them about 20 boxes of the biggest mess you ever saw. jack was not just organized. he was opposed to this organization. anyway, i started out to help him sort the papers. and so i have bought all these file boxes. about folders and everything. the pick of the paper and sick and the way you think this one goes? the atlanta constitution or the marvin griffin administration. he was sick and give me that and start reading it. he read every piece of paper. he could not part with a single one. after today's idea of. okay. it's all yours. the second reason i had a negative impression was that they brought silver fish into the house. [laughter] so after he died in that a side that, you know, his memoir needed to be completed. it was a wonderful read. an important book. i knew that meant attacking his papers. i could not do it a
so i'm very, very proud that tax papers are here, as i said, where they belong. now to return to his question, actually, initially i had a very negative approach. it did not start out very well. when jack retired he came back. he brought home with them about 20 boxes of the biggest mess you ever saw. jack was not just organized. he was opposed to this organization. anyway, i started out to help him sort the papers. and so i have bought all these file boxes. about folders and everything. the...
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and robert kennedy were trying to attach to the bill a constitutional amendment outlawing the poll tax. this was something that needed to be done, obviously. the attorney general feared that the courts were going to say it's unconstitutional, you have to do it by an amendment. you can't do it this way. so there was going to be a critical vote in which it was possible that the democratic liberals and the republican liberals were going to attach this thing on. what bothered the administration was they barely had the votes, 67 votes, to defeat a southern filibuster. if they couldn't break the southern filibuster, there would be no legislation. so johnson called up dr. king -- i urge all of you to get some of these tapes and listen to them. the conversations between king and johnson are absolutely priceless. and johnson said, well, dr. king -- because king wanted to support this plan. he says, well, dr. king, you have to make up your own mind about it. who you want to trust. who you want to think is representing your cause. if you believe that you want to support this amendment and you tru
and robert kennedy were trying to attach to the bill a constitutional amendment outlawing the poll tax. this was something that needed to be done, obviously. the attorney general feared that the courts were going to say it's unconstitutional, you have to do it by an amendment. you can't do it this way. so there was going to be a critical vote in which it was possible that the democratic liberals and the republican liberals were going to attach this thing on. what bothered the administration was...
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the county, truck stops in rome, the mills in south georgia, state payroll padding, embezzlement of tax funds, confects for private work, nepotism from purchasing schemes such as the state board of leaks with no water. [laughter] on i could go on. many of these expos ase took place during the griffin administration which president carter can attest notoriously corrupt. they had never stolen so much. but ronald griffin was kind of day for giving sort of croak. quite a few years later she and jack and other reporters were drinking and marvin griffin said to jack you know how use to think every time i would see him walking into a press conference was a notebook, and jack said what? he said i used to think with that beady eye son of a bitch has on me today. [laughter] she used to pursue the story for the "l.a. times," and he was always -- i think we have to watch our time here so i just going to end by saying how happy i am that this book is published because she had such a wonderful career in washington it tended to overshadow this earlier phase of his career in the south, and this book al
the county, truck stops in rome, the mills in south georgia, state payroll padding, embezzlement of tax funds, confects for private work, nepotism from purchasing schemes such as the state board of leaks with no water. [laughter] on i could go on. many of these expos ase took place during the griffin administration which president carter can attest notoriously corrupt. they had never stolen so much. but ronald griffin was kind of day for giving sort of croak. quite a few years later she and...
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the government subsidies started with tax credits and then in the early '70s to start on a path with the community reinvestment act the force banks to get from the lending business and they have no business to be in that business. but the big event happened september 1989 where bill clinton who was president made it mandatory and said freddie mac and fannie mae at least half loans have to be in affordable lending. that was the dramatic announcement because of the size of fannie and freddie and they identified the risk involved in it and said fitted for a year so big that they cannot meet the goal without radically reducing menders -- lending standards and if they achieve that goal they will take so much risk that they could get into financial trouble and they are so vague they can take up the whole financial system. nine years later date of $5 trillion in had $2 trillion of some prime even before they failed they were leveraged 1,000 / one. like a net worth of $10,000 and can borrow to million. you can only do that if the government guarantees your debt. this is under estimated. the
the government subsidies started with tax credits and then in the early '70s to start on a path with the community reinvestment act the force banks to get from the lending business and they have no business to be in that business. but the big event happened september 1989 where bill clinton who was president made it mandatory and said freddie mac and fannie mae at least half loans have to be in affordable lending. that was the dramatic announcement because of the size of fannie and freddie and...
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so repatriating money that's already taxed to the united states will boost our economy and allow us to create jobs here and maybe could be tie intoed creating an infrastructure bank, but we need some fundamental changes. belief it or not we care more than anything else about the health of the economy, so deficit reduction is really big for us. we support the simpson-bowles, we're the only association that does. it hurts etch, it's shared sacrifice, it's painful even for us but we need stability in our finances as a country, and every responsible business should stand up and say that, and we're urging both sides -- republicans and democrats -- to recognize the pain has to be spread around. there's some things, patent controls that effects innovation. basically, people don't produce anything but lawyers. it's not really a good way to get a society. and from the smallest start-up to the biggest economy everyone's saying we need more certainty, you shouldn't be putting people out of work in actively-of run companies if they're don't even think they're breaking someone's patent. there has t
so repatriating money that's already taxed to the united states will boost our economy and allow us to create jobs here and maybe could be tie intoed creating an infrastructure bank, but we need some fundamental changes. belief it or not we care more than anything else about the health of the economy, so deficit reduction is really big for us. we support the simpson-bowles, we're the only association that does. it hurts etch, it's shared sacrifice, it's painful even for us but we need stability...
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interestingly enough, although wyclef was common knowledge there were widespread allegations of unpaid taxes, misspent money, most people that i was talking to commendations did not care that much. they were much more interested in his promise as someone who had lived the dream to grow up for and moved to brooklyn then making it a huge to come back as a major star in and force. i have a conversation in the ng to a waiter ia waiter i said hoodoos' support? he said wyclef. he said i know but if he is american that means when he is elected president that means you all get a visa. [laughter] he said that. with the allegations that have only gotten worse with time, it is hard to say there is not proved that they are wrong there mostly based with paperwork for filings with the irs. then eyes way business is conducted in this country that at least there are five main agencies so normally when you have done something wrong if somebody goes to look for you have a paper trail. he seems to be caught up in that. when you talk to wyclef, a lot of people to agree he does have big dreams and he does want h
interestingly enough, although wyclef was common knowledge there were widespread allegations of unpaid taxes, misspent money, most people that i was talking to commendations did not care that much. they were much more interested in his promise as someone who had lived the dream to grow up for and moved to brooklyn then making it a huge to come back as a major star in and force. i have a conversation in the ng to a waiter ia waiter i said hoodoos' support? he said wyclef. he said i know but if...
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even though he was quite common knowledge in haiti that there was a widespread allegations of unpaid taxes in misspent money that had gone to as a group, most people that i was talking to, the haitians who lived there, didn't really care all that much. they were much more interested in his promise as somebody basically who could lift the dream of growing up outside of port-au-prince moving to brooklyn and then making it huge and coming back as a major star. i had a conversation that is in the book here, where i'm talking to somebody who is actually a waiter in a restaurant. i was saying who do you support in the election and he said oh wyclef jean. and i said why wyclef jean? he is an american and he speaks creole like i do, which he does. i don't know which one i'm flattering more. [laughter] and he said yes, i know but if he is american that means that when he is elected president we are all going to -- [inaudible] [laughter] he said this. in terms of the allegations which have only gotten worse with time, you know it's hard to say. there hasn't really been any substantive proof brought
even though he was quite common knowledge in haiti that there was a widespread allegations of unpaid taxes in misspent money that had gone to as a group, most people that i was talking to, the haitians who lived there, didn't really care all that much. they were much more interested in his promise as somebody basically who could lift the dream of growing up outside of port-au-prince moving to brooklyn and then making it huge and coming back as a major star. i had a conversation that is in the...
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he has turned jack kennedy's built, civil-rights bill, tax bill, at least started all of them on the road to passage. january 8th is also the date that lyndon johnson's first state of the union speech, the speech in which he makes the presidency is unknown, with his announcement that america is going to have a war on poverty. if we don't know them and we don't -- to not well enough no history are wonderful. too many americans live on the outskirts of hope and that is -- that is his quote. that is who we have to help. the more detail you learn about how johnson did it, what he did with congress, what he did to congress, the more amazing accomplishment seems. the civil-rights bill is dead, he sees in an instant only one letter can move us forward, a parliamentary maneuver and i wrote in the book there was only one leader of lyndon johnson was going to grab. there was only one letter he was going to push, he was going to put all his weight behind it. all of a sudden the new york times write something changed on capitol hill yesterday and the civil-rights bill starts to move. during this
he has turned jack kennedy's built, civil-rights bill, tax bill, at least started all of them on the road to passage. january 8th is also the date that lyndon johnson's first state of the union speech, the speech in which he makes the presidency is unknown, with his announcement that america is going to have a war on poverty. if we don't know them and we don't -- to not well enough no history are wonderful. too many americans live on the outskirts of hope and that is -- that is his quote. that...
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suddenly the church did a 180 and instead of being this banned, sinful thing, it became mandatory and taxed. and so perceptions about things change. >> i'll just add one more comment in response p to ricardo's statement which is that we are poisoning the rain forest because we are engaged in aerial spraying as most of you know, i'm sure, in colombia which has a whole range of negative impacts on that country and on the amazon. and just to end with an anecdote, the u.s -- a former u.s. ambassador to peru who was ambassador in the late '80s told me a story once. they were trying to convince the peruvians who had refused -- both bolivia and peru have refused to allow aerial spraying programs in the country. they were trying to convince peru, so they brought a delegation i think it was to georgia to show them how they would do the spraying. and they started the little presentation, and then out walked these men in white astronaut suits covered from head to toe with the sample of the spraying and the peruvians just ran and said, no way, we're not going to do that. [laughter] so we'll end on that
suddenly the church did a 180 and instead of being this banned, sinful thing, it became mandatory and taxed. and so perceptions about things change. >> i'll just add one more comment in response p to ricardo's statement which is that we are poisoning the rain forest because we are engaged in aerial spraying as most of you know, i'm sure, in colombia which has a whole range of negative impacts on that country and on the amazon. and just to end with an anecdote, the u.s -- a former u.s....
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i work for the government -- [inaudible] my after-tax dollars. so it just seems to me that the government should be doing something to keep tuitions in check. not necessarily turn into a european system, but who are these magical doctors who are going to descend upon america and provide health care to everyone when it's 70 grand a year for one year of tuition, and you may have undergrad loans, and you're going to be taking out conceivably 300 grand for medical school? >> right. for c-span, do we need to repeat question, or are we okay? repeat the question? so the question is, um, how are we going to help young people make it through, um, you know, their educational goals, college or graduate school, in light of runaway tuition. >> yes. >> is that right? okay. do you want -- >> and also -- [inaudible] >> right. >> i mean, how are we going to get the doctors if tuition is 70 grand a year? >> we write in the booking about how -- in the book about how hard it is for homeless kids in the cities in which they live today just get through high school. th
i work for the government -- [inaudible] my after-tax dollars. so it just seems to me that the government should be doing something to keep tuitions in check. not necessarily turn into a european system, but who are these magical doctors who are going to descend upon america and provide health care to everyone when it's 70 grand a year for one year of tuition, and you may have undergrad loans, and you're going to be taking out conceivably 300 grand for medical school? >> right. for...
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but for one of the more kind of common war propaganda tax was to inflate the numbers of your enemy and deflate your own. >> i had a question kind of along the same lines as an organized effort in propaganda leading up to the world. it occurs to me that it shall occasions he read about certain individuals meeting at print shops, the adams coach at on your blog, this morning, john. so i wonder how prevalent was organized efforts to propagandize the newspapers. then the other side of that, who is financing some of these things? newspapers are pretty obvious, printers are making money but then when things like broadsided monsters but who was funding, was it a super pac from the patriot side that is financing certain broadside, who's paying the piper in that? >> okay, i'll start with the question of meeting at newspaper offices. this was -- gary mentioned i quoted a little bit of john adams in 1769, in his diary where he spends the evening at the office of the prints up with a grading the boston gazette. samuel adams was there and a man named william davis and possibly james soda. and they
but for one of the more kind of common war propaganda tax was to inflate the numbers of your enemy and deflate your own. >> i had a question kind of along the same lines as an organized effort in propaganda leading up to the world. it occurs to me that it shall occasions he read about certain individuals meeting at print shops, the adams coach at on your blog, this morning, john. so i wonder how prevalent was organized efforts to propagandize the newspapers. then the other side of that,...
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you know, the number of tax increases two to three times. but the amount of casualties goes 20 to 25 times within a short period of time. pakistani military come the states they these attacks are likely to come again in the future should they take on certain other operations like north waziristan and haqqani network. this is a profound concern was to be repeatedly right after admiral mullen statements in 2011 about the pakistani government not doing much about the haqqani network. the explanation that can be taken with a grain of salt, but nevertheless should be padded out. if they describe the hornets last, they would be in alliances chapati networks and bring the same level of violent the pakistanis experienced in 2007 at 2009, which crashed pakistani public and military and returned again and that was something in it. tennessee great degree of calibration as to what you have to absorb or bair that motivates the limited strategy to utilize. another question comes up with selectivity that they distinguished a taliban verse that telegram. it
you know, the number of tax increases two to three times. but the amount of casualties goes 20 to 25 times within a short period of time. pakistani military come the states they these attacks are likely to come again in the future should they take on certain other operations like north waziristan and haqqani network. this is a profound concern was to be repeatedly right after admiral mullen statements in 2011 about the pakistani government not doing much about the haqqani network. the...
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gas in your tax. to me that is ludicrous. those are nice things. why it's getting ready to happen. what the possible solutions to get out of. here is a great example of how we got in trouble in the first place. what our founders believed was that we would have a very limited central government. i absolutely believe that we should have a limited central government, but it should be authoritative in terms of the areas that we give a responsibility. beyond that what you do is he totally diminish hall of these laboratories of experimentation, all these regional differences when you take it and pull that power away and said it in washington. what you're doing is markedly diminished liberty and freedoms of people outside of washington. >> is attempting? >> not for me. when i ran for the senate one of my campaign themes is, not bring anything of the oklahoma. the reason is, there is no money here. anything we send you home we are stealing from your children today. i mean, remember, out of the. half trillion
gas in your tax. to me that is ludicrous. those are nice things. why it's getting ready to happen. what the possible solutions to get out of. here is a great example of how we got in trouble in the first place. what our founders believed was that we would have a very limited central government. i absolutely believe that we should have a limited central government, but it should be authoritative in terms of the areas that we give a responsibility. beyond that what you do is he totally diminish...
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your taxes are going to be raised. you have a two-thirds chance of out living your retirement savings. talk to me. they present their solution. now, their solution is often something that is a high commissioned product, like, say, a variable annuity or indexed annuity, and, you know, all i can say about annuities, there's some good ones, some not so good ones, but if they presented you in a free lunch or dinner, they are not the ones you want to be in, and these are thingings that come with extremely high cost basis going on, and you can't get yourself out of them without severe difficulty, and the story is the people sold on inappropriate adjustments, do a google search, and there's tons of stuff on one page. >> host: you didn't say anything about the quality of the meal. good steak at least? >> guest: one is funny. apparently, the advice is right now is to give out the food when -- after the presentation, and parts so that people are not listening to you over clanging forks and so in part they are not distracted. my
your taxes are going to be raised. you have a two-thirds chance of out living your retirement savings. talk to me. they present their solution. now, their solution is often something that is a high commissioned product, like, say, a variable annuity or indexed annuity, and, you know, all i can say about annuities, there's some good ones, some not so good ones, but if they presented you in a free lunch or dinner, they are not the ones you want to be in, and these are thingings that come with...
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i have seen this, a social security is going to be cut and your taxes will be raised. have a two-thirds chance of outliving retirement savings. but they present their solution that is often high commission like a variable annuity sert -- summer good and some not so good but to be presented to you they are not the ones you want to be at. and come with extremely high cost basis and you cannot get yourself out without difficulty. and you could do a global search and i guarantee you'll find the stuff. >> a good steak? >> the one i went to is hysterical apparently the advice is give out the food after the presentation and so they're not distracted but my experience it was just a lot of hungry people. i was sitting there waiting and waiting and waiting and they kept saying to the kitchen is delayed. the kitchen is delayed. i would not say it was four-star but there's a whole theory what type of restaurant to go to and it should be a good restaurant. nolo end. but it is not too high and. and also as one person told me said never do italian the seniors have delicate stomachs.
i have seen this, a social security is going to be cut and your taxes will be raised. have a two-thirds chance of outliving retirement savings. but they present their solution that is often high commission like a variable annuity sert -- summer good and some not so good but to be presented to you they are not the ones you want to be at. and come with extremely high cost basis and you cannot get yourself out without difficulty. and you could do a global search and i guarantee you'll find the...
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they want to be able to get the salaries tax-deferred. eventually there is a little code put into the tax called the 401k and these high and executives get the right to put their money aside on tax-deferred basis. no one thinks anything of this except for one man who and he sees that why can this be all of us and he gets the administration to agree with his viewpoint on this in the early 1980's. the next part which almost nobody foresaw is the idea that we demand that we don't have to give people pensions, dewey? the 401k could substitute and this is where the corporate cost cutters began and they say even if you are going to match at 3% or 6% is a lot cheaper than funding the pension. besides a lot of people won't find out any way is so don't worry about that but surely over a period of many years, the numbers drift out to where we are today. >> host: this is all happening when the stock market was just waging in the 80s and 90s and people thought there were going to get 25% returns a year. >> guest: there is the opposition except for th
they want to be able to get the salaries tax-deferred. eventually there is a little code put into the tax called the 401k and these high and executives get the right to put their money aside on tax-deferred basis. no one thinks anything of this except for one man who and he sees that why can this be all of us and he gets the administration to agree with his viewpoint on this in the early 1980's. the next part which almost nobody foresaw is the idea that we demand that we don't have to give...
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but that ronald reagan because he lowered taxes and made it easier for the women to work and make money was a boon to women and in that sense i think that you can have all of your sort of pet interests and there's a lot of rent seeking when groups out there that are looking to be heard but really it comes down to a limited government, lowering taxes, getting work a lot easier, saving and earning money a lot easier. these are principles that i think we really clanged above others. >> if i might add i think respect for tradition also is something else. we are by now familiar and nauseated by the word change, but i think respect for tradition isn't something that we as conservatives shy away from. it doesn't mean that change is never a good thing but i think that respect for tradition is something that is important to conservatives. i think that's why a lot of conservatives tend to be religious. i think that conservatives also tend to look at the world through a morrill who lends where there is good and there is evil. there has to be some hostile questions out there. >> to the estimate fol
but that ronald reagan because he lowered taxes and made it easier for the women to work and make money was a boon to women and in that sense i think that you can have all of your sort of pet interests and there's a lot of rent seeking when groups out there that are looking to be heard but really it comes down to a limited government, lowering taxes, getting work a lot easier, saving and earning money a lot easier. these are principles that i think we really clanged above others. >> if i...